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" You need to form a grand coalition, and you need to put your ideological differences aside and work together to focus on people's basic needs. You can't eat sharia. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

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" Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you. "

" I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many. "

" You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus. "

" Egypt needs to catch up with the rest of the world. We need to be free, democratic, and - society where people have the right to live in freedom and dignity. "

" Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that this is an imbalanced system; there is a sense of humiliation and impotence. "

" The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because all the other liberal parties have been smothered for 30 years. "

" Sanctions are a bad idea. "

" All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service. "

" Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities. "

" You're shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates. "

" I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could be irrational in many ways, but I don't think they're irrational to the point that they're ready to annihilate their own country. "

" I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda. "

" As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others. "

" I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share. "

" Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon. "

" If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the people's desperate need for change. "

" Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons. "

" Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security. "

" Iran's goal is not to become another North Korea - a nuclear weapons possessor but a pariah in the international community - but rather Brazil or Japan, a technological powerhouse with the capacity to develop nuclear weapons if the political winds were to shift, while remaining a nonnuclear weapons state. "

" My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

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" I couldn't have imagined that I would live long enough to see Egypt emancipated from decades of repression. "

" I feel relieved that we discovered that Iraq did not have nuclear weapons. "

" We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons. "

" Whether weapons exist in Iraq, Saddam Hussein or post-Saddam Hussein, it is a serious enough issue that require that we continue to go and make sure that Iraq does not have weapons. "

" You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years. "

" The international community must do a better job of controlling the risks of nuclear proliferation. Sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle - the production of new fuel, the processing of weapon-usable material, the disposal of spent fuel and radioactive waste - would be less vulnerable to proliferation if brought under multinational control. "

" Nuclear proliferation is on the rise. Equipment, material and training were once largely inaccessible. Today, however, there is a sophisticated worldwide network that can deliver systems for producing material usable in weapons. "